Webcomic / Jump Leads

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A British Sci-Fi comedy webcomic inspired by shows like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Red Dwarf, Jump Leads is the story of Thomas Meaney and Richard Llewellyn, trainees in the Lead Service - a sort-of self-appointed "Reality Police" who travel to parallel Universes and ensure everything is occurring as it should. They've hit a bit of a problem, however - a disastrous set of circumstances during their first field training exercise have left them stranded in a broken JumpShip, aimlessly jumping from one random Universe to the next. But with Meaney trying hard to return to the career he loves and Llewellyn content to meander aimlessly through existence, getting back to Lead H.Q. continues to look like an impossible task...

Jump Leads is created by Ben Paddon and illustrated by "JjAR". Rather than having a single writer, Jump Leads has a TV Series-esque writing team, with different writers writing the scripts for different issues. Paddon is the lead writer, with the rest of the team being Euan Mumford, Paul Varley and Andrew Taylor (plus guest writers).

Nine issues have been completed so far, with the tenth issue currently underway. The issues so far are:

Just Between You and Me: Averted: this is one of the few errors Gray won't commit. No sense in a "before I kill you, let me tell you my plan" if you aren't going to kill them. The heroes can't have it all their own way.

Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: Deliberate. Gray wants the crew to escape their holding cells "Somewhere between Step 1: Build highly complex volcano island base and Step 3: Profit!" so he won't have to work out the details of his plan.

Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: With taking it over rather than destroying it. Gray has taken over the world once already, found the experience of running it boring, and abdicated power. But he still loves trying to take over the world. So he now invents ludicrously flawed plans for his bids for world domination.

Not-So-Harmless Villain: At the end of the issue, with reverse-engineered universe-jumping technology within his grasp, Gray decides to start conquering other, parallel worlds - and this time, he's going to do it properly.

The Travellers

Rogues & Scallywags

Shout-Out: Imprisoned "Freelance" dimension-hopping Mercenary Hayter is named for voice actor David Hayter who played Solid Snake in the Metal Gear video series (but looks more like an aged Christopher Eccleston).

Waterworld

The Cult of Meaney

The Voyage Home

General

Obstructive Code of Conduct: Survive at all costs, as opposed to, say, sacrificing your life to save a universe from disaster: there are an infinite number of universes, and only so many trained operatives.

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